Historically, public charge rules have been a threat to immigrants dismissed as too disabled to be full contributors to the country.

The Austronesian concept of "mana" helps us understand that behind the monolithic "magic" of modern power and authority, there is a fragile human dimension.

Otto Weininger's only book, Sex & Character, is a misogynist, anti-Semitic screed masquerading as philosophy. Yet it was enormously influential in fin-de-siècle Vienna.

Exploring the Celtic origins of everyone's favorite harvest holiday celebrating thresholds between life and death.

Neither banning nor recycling will rid us of Styrofoam. Can we live without it?

Well-researched stories from The New York Times, Aeon, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

Los Angeles's bountiful agricultural land was devoured by runaway suburbanization, a process which began long before the post-war era.

An ancient ball game called Ulama is making a comeback in Mexico. What do we know about the earlier iteration of the game?

In a perplexing recent study, researchers dosed octopuses. Turns out, scientists have long studied the similarities between cephalopod and human brains.

A hundred years ago, it was quite common for working-class children to roam the streets freely at night.